This also struck me as a huge problem. The default expression of my character seems to be an extremely smug grin.
Considering I was just standing back because two NPCs were about to murder each other it felt extremely out of place and did not fit at all with what I was imagining my character would do.
Personally I would probably prefer to just disable the cinematic camera and stay in the top down view, just as in D:OS and also every pen & paper game I have ever played irl.